Frases de Pat Cadigan (18 citas)

Cadigan (1993) in: " Interview with Pat Cadigan, May 1993 http://tamaranth.blogspot.nl/1993/05/interview-pat-cadigan-may-1993.html" in The Hardcore, 1993

“The Beater has still been young enough to feel immortal, at least on his better days. It was all, Wow, if we don’t slow down, we’re gonna die before we get old, except somehow it hadn’t happened that way. So they’d all assumed it never would, not dying, not getting old—hell, not even growing up.”

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Pat Cadigan libro Synners

Fuente: Synners (1991), Chapter 11 (p. 109)

“He had the sudden urge to put his arms around her, but the look on her face said that if he made a move toward her, she would move away, and maybe she would keep moving away from him until the distance between them was too great to cross again in one lifetime.”

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Pat Cadigan libro Synners

Fuente: Synners (1991), Chapter 29 (p. 339)

“Ninety percent of life was being there, and the rest was being there on time.”

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Pat Cadigan libro Synners

Fuente: Synners (1991), Chapter 32 (p. 389)

“Reaching in, he wrapped the exposed wires around his fingers and ripped them out. The locks released, letting the door fall open a crack.
“That’s what we call a Luddite hack.””

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Pat Cadigan libro Synners

Fuente: Synners (1991), Chapter 29 (p. 338)

“Fez gave her a squeeze. “You’re a genius, Sam-I-Am.”
She squirmed away from him uncomfortably. “It just makes sense, is all.””

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Pat Cadigan libro Synners

“Sometimes that’s all it takes to be a genius.”
Fuente: Synners (1991), Chapter 32 (p. 387)

“‘Truth is cheap, but information costs.’ I can’t remember who said that.”
“Vince What’s-His-Name,” said Sam. “Died in a terrorist raid or something. I thought you said all information should be free.”
“It should. It isn’t. Knowledge is power. But power corrupts. Which means the Age of Fast Information is an extremely corrupt age in which to live.”

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Pat Cadigan libro Synners

“Aren’t they all?” Sam asked him.
Fuente: Synners (1991), Chapter 5 (pp. 52-53)

“If you’re really going to die on me, you could at least rub my neck before you go.”

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Pat Cadigan libro Synners

Fuente: Synners (1991), Chapter 1 (p. 2)

“If you can’t fuck it, and it doesn’t dance, eat it or throw it away.”

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Pat Cadigan libro Synners

Fuente: Synners (1991), Chapter 29 (p. 334; catch phrase repeated several times in the book)

“You don’t belong with them; you’re not special, you have no place in any unseen world; you’re like me and the rest of our family. Get used to it! It’s hell being ordinary, but that’s the human condition.”

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Pat Cadigan

Fuente: Short fiction, Picking Up the Pieces (2011), p. 191
Contexto: I pushed her back hard. “You don’t belong with them; you’re not special, you have no place in any unseen world; you’re like me and the rest of our family. Get used to it!” She looked at me like I’d slapped her.
“Oh, sorry,” I said, feeling equally stung by her reaction. “It’s hell being ordinary, but that’s the human condition.”

“That was the real price, I thought. Once you had power, you ended up having to depend on it. Eventually, like anything else, it owned you.
Eventually? No, from the beginning; we just don’t bother admitting it at first.”

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Pat Cadigan

Fuente: Short fiction, Naming Names (1992), p. 389